Userpilot

OCTOBER 19, 2024

According to the American Customer Satisfaction Index , with an ACSI score of 78.0, overall customer satisfaction in America was the highest it has ever been in Q1 2024. However, while some companies have managed to improve their customer satisfaction levels and benefit from it, many have not. What is customer satisfaction?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

Automated customer service isn’t a new concept. But much has changed, both in usability and customer perception. Voice recognition technology has improved, AI solutions can interpret customer feedback, and chatbots have started to answer the questions they receive, not just pass them off to a human.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2020

We are at the start of a revolution in customer communication, powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence. Our Custom Bots and Resolution Bot already work for thousands of businesses every day. These bots help businesses deliver both radical efficiencies and better, faster support experiences.

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Product Talk

APRIL 9, 2025

Last week, I shared that we often get asked, Do API teams need to do discovery ? Today, Ill be covering the most common usability issues that arise when developers start working with a new API. Customer-facing APIs are products. You want customers to get value from your product as quickly as possible.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 8, 2019

The day we reached 200 daily users was a critical milestone – more a psychological one for me personally than anything else. Local businesses paid us to be on our website, and people told us that it saved them time. We refined the message and added features important for our partners and users. A story of one failure.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Let’s review everything your customer success team has to do in the absence of any customer success tools. Collect customer data to calculate complex formulas for tracking metrics, monitor customer health scores, and resolve support tickets while continuously trying to improve retention and expansion.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 12, 2021

As a support leader, you already know how important it is to take care of your customers – but it’s just as important to take care of your support team. Here’s why human support is so crucial for any customer-centric organization, and how it can have a significant impact on your team, your business, and your customers.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

The term product owner is commonly used to refer to six different product roles in my experience. A feature owner who manages a major capability with which end users interact like search and navigation on an online retailer’s website. As its name suggests, a product owner in Scrum is in charge of a product. Scrum Product Owner.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 22, 2024

These might be end-user-facing or internal ones like a software platform, for instance; they might directly generate revenue or support commercial offerings. You can think of Microsoft Visio as a product line, as it is offered in three versions at the time of writing—basic, standard, and advanced.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

The overall example I use to illustrate the mistakes is a healthy eating app that helps its users improve their eating habits and live more healthily. Examples : “Everyone who owns a smartphone”, “Business users and consumers”. Target Group is (too) Big and Heterogenous. Instead, they require tough strategic decision and clear focus.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

The first one carries the risk of being a feature broker and offering a product that has a weak value proposition, gives rise to a poor user experience, and consists of a loose collection of features. A handy stakeholder analysis tool is the power-interest grid developed by Ackermann and Eden. Build Trust.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2022

Recently one of the founders of a hot startup asked me, “How do we know if we should add new value props for existing customers or continue to invest in existing ones? It’s not a simple answer, but there are critical data points that will point any founder in the right direction with near certainty every time.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 26, 2022

In today’s modern age, support teams simply need to redefine what being “personal” means. But with the development of automation, like bots and contextual help content, we’ve significantly changed our perception of what being personal means. If your team is pondering whether to use “bots versus humans?” That’s true empathy.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 Complement Scrum with a Product Discovery and Strategy Process Scrum is a simple framework that helps teams develop successful products. How can you capture the right user stories , for instance, if you are unsure who the users are and why they want to use the product?

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

We covered how to manage messy opportunity solution trees , the most common challenges teams face when getting started with the discovery habits, what Im working on next, and so much more. Discovery is a team sport. I did classic web development before there were frameworks back in the ’90s. It is an absolute requirement.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

We may not like difficult emotions like confusion, frustration, anger, envy, sadness, and worry, but we all experience them. This is especially true in times like these, with the Coronavirus pandemic causing many people to be concerned about their health and jobs and the wellbeing of family members and friends. What does it feel like?

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

We may not like difficult emotions like confusion, frustration, anger, envy, sadness, and worry, but we all experience them. This is especially true in times like these, with the Coronavirus pandemic causing many people to be concerned about their health and jobs and the wellbeing of family members and friends. What does it feel like?

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. But for sprint review meetings , you may also want to invite (selected) users and customers to collect their feedback. This can make it harder for people to free up the necessary time and attend them.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

A user researcher or other UX practitioner may group users by patterns in their behavior, both inside and outside your product. Whether you consider your user base in light of market research or user research, both of these kinds of researchers use the patterns they discover to form personas. Why bring this up?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 21, 2020

Mobile apps dominate our digital experiences. Text introduces us to each app, starting with its name, and text guides us to how apps work and what value they provide, from instructions and inputs to settings and disclaimers. People downloaded a record 204 billion of them from the Google and Apple app stores in 2019.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Simple steps product managers can take to become Time Rich. When he started his own company, he needed to learn how to actually work, and what he learned was how to get twice as much done in half the time. His name is Steve Glaveski and we discuss his system for getting more accomplished in less time.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

Securing everyone’s buy-in would be impractical—it would most likely take too much time. But when bigger changes are required or the group is more diverse, the approach is not only time-consuming. This approach makes it easier to reach unanimity and consent without making weak compromises.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

Goal-oriented roadmaps focus on goals or objectives like acquiring customers, increasing engagement, and removing technical debt. To help you develop your agile product roadmap, I have created a goal-oriented roadmap template called the GO Product Roadmap. I like to use my Product Vision Board to develop a valid product strategy.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 29, 2024

ODI shifts focus from generating ideas to understanding and addressing customer needs, leading to more successful products and innovations. Let’s gain perspective from the knowledge and experience of one of the most influential people in product innovation, Tony Ulwick. He started exploring what makes innovation successful.

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Product Talk

JUNE 5, 2024

Product trios are cross-functional product teams who are responsible for both deciding what to build and then building it. How can product trios work with user researchers? What about the other people on the team who aren’t part of the product trio? How can product trios adapt to remote work and distributed teams?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

It took me time to understand that I need to present myself as a product leadership coach and product strategy expert rather than a consultant. It’s a great model but the name is quite misleading. That’s why I named my strategic product-led growth course ‘Unboxing PLG’. PLG under the hood.

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Userpilot

MARCH 30, 2025

But is your mobile user acquisition strategy strong enough? If you expect users to come naturally just because your product is good, youre already at a disadvantage. Organic, when you attract users through public platforms and owned media marketing. Use referrals to encourage users to refer your app to others.

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Product Talk

APRIL 21, 2021

Welcome to JEDI Training for Continuous Discovery Teams. I’ve had the luxury of working with teams all over the world, and I teach them a structured and sustainable approach to continuous discovery. And I like to set the tone that this framework was developed and co-created with dozens of teams from all over the world.

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Folding Burritos

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

However, just saying No doesn’t necessarily change the fact that stakeholders will keep asking for features all the time. This is a long piece, so take your time or save it for later.). You want the stakeholders’ input, but you need it to be (and need them to think) in terms of problems for you and your team to solve.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2018

Embracing new technologies like machine learning, micro services, big data, and Internet of Things (IoT) is part of that change, as is the introduction of agile practices including cross-functional and self-organising teams, DevOps, Scrum, and Kanban. This creates continuity of purpose, facilitates learning, and reduces wasteful handoffs.

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Userpilot

MARCH 17, 2025

Looking for the best tools for interactive user guides for your company? There are plenty of solutions for interactive user guides on review sites, but they dont make the choice any easier. In this post, Ill explain which interactive user guide software is the best fit for your company and needs.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

Some think customers will see the advent of AI as a welcome way to get self-help quickly and get back to their task. Others worry that AI will worsen the customer experience as more and more companies use it to save costs. He joined me for a conversation on tackling issues that come up as you scale your customer experience.

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Userpilot

MAY 18, 2023

UX deals with a user's interactions with specific aspects of your product, while CX is broader and covers all customer engagements with your brand. TL;DR The user experience (UX) is the sum of a user's thoughts, impressions, and feelings as they interact with specific aspects of your product.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 24, 2022

A digital customer experience coupled with rapid physical product creation – insights for product managers. I felt very bad doing this, but it was amazing to me that seeing photos and videos of a product doesn’t always translate into real life. We send customers a replica ring first.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 4, 2025

How AI captures customer needs that human product managers miss Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Carmel Dibner from Applied Marketing Science, we explored how artificial intelligence is transforming Voice of the Customer (VOC) research for product teams.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2020

I have a narrow, somewhat puritanical view about product manager conversations with customers and prospects: we should never lie to them. These are complex deals on the customer side with buying committees, unique integration requirements, internal champions for each competing vendor, and reputational risk for choosing the wrong product.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

This can be reassuring for customers and stakeholders, as the individuals believe that they know when their features will be delivered. This makes the product roadmap more susceptible to change and it increases the effort to update it. In addition to goals, the template above contains dates or time frames, names, features, and metrics.

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